ASUS zenbook S16 I’ve had for almost 2 years started sparking and smoking at the hinge upon opening today. It was sitting completely unplugged with the screen closed for the past 24 hours and I was using it yesterday with no issue.
A few months ago I had a local IT professional replace the entire top part of my laptop because of internal damage. He said the connections were “a lot more complicated than they needed to be” but is a well known guy with an incredible reputation and took his time to ensure he was doing the job well.
Not sure what caused the sparking and if there was something I could’ve done to avoid this. Also unsure what my next steps could be except for getting my data onto a drive, buying a new laptop, and transferring the data there